Unknown Language: duneta sapis, si cuneta lagis

this is a motto or aphorism, to guess from the circumstances of my coming across it, but, from the rural fastnesses of northern New England, I don't know how to find out what language is involved. If it is an accepted invented language, it may have borrowed elements that living languages developed for their own use (beside the obvious Roman letters). the "si" word perhaps connotes a conditional or an affirmative ['if' or 'yes'], and the '-is' could be second person singular verb forms.

That, however, is rank speculation and doesn't solve the problem. Over to you kind experts!

As a learner of Esperanto, I'd be surprised if it was in this language. I don't say it cannot be Esperanto, since I'm still learning, I just say it doesn't sound Esperanto to me.

Duneta and cuneta can be possible adjectives since it ends with "-a" but the following words, sapis and lagis can never be nouns. And since adjectives should modify the nouns, then it's not possibly Esperanto.

If I were to try to translate this into english from latin, assuming that this were latin, it would come out "You taste dual-nets(things spinned or weaved) if you <lag__> cuneta." It sounds like one of those fake latin phrases that you find on templates and the like when you want the person to look at the design and not the text.

Yes, it could. But, the verb and accusative noun used in the second part aren't found in anything I can find to be latin.
Cuneta does appear at on wordreference as
a spanish word I'd never heard before(I learn something new every day)

The fake latin that I'm referring to is that found at
lipsum ( I can't post "URLs to other sites after you have made 30 posts or more.")
I didn't find that exact phrase in any of the text, but it reminds me of it. Also, if you google it, you get nothing.

this is a motto or aphorism, to guess from the circumstances of my coming across it, but, from the rural fastnesses of northern New England, I don't know how to find out what language is involved. If it is an accepted invented language, it may have borrowed elements that living languages developed for their own use (beside the obvious Roman letters). the "si" word perhaps connotes a conditional or an affirmative ['if' or 'yes'], and the '-is' could be second person singular verb forms.
That, however, is rank speculation and doesn't solve the problem. Over to you kind experts!

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It looks like Romanian to me... Can't help you with the translation, though.

Yes, it's Romanian, but it's slang. K-gula is a Romanian hiphopper, hence the slang.
I found a latin phrase that contains two of the words in the topic phrase: "ride si sapis" means "laugh if you are wise". Maybe we could start from that.

It does look like an invented language indeed since it doesn`t look like any of the real tongues. Looks like a combination of two or an example of corrupt spelling. It is DEFINITELY not Slavic, Samoan or Tagalog. It looks like Romanian, Moldovan? Except for the "latin-looking" sapis and lagis. Are you sure it is not some dead language?

I'm quite sure that Papillon and Mansio are right. It is too similar to the latin phrase to be in a different language.Besides, one could very easily take an "e" for a "c" if they're handwritten. As far as I'm concerned, this issue is settled!
Don't you agree?

Papillon
Your link in some Slavic language says "vse znash" for "cuneta sapis" which means something like "you know everything".
It was my first translation for sapis, then I remembered the word sapidity = taste.

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"you know everything" part actually sounds OK to me. The second part -- če vse bereš, which I think is Slovenian, would mean something like all that <you> take, I think is wrong. I will have to check that translation, but that's what it would mean in Russian.

Edit: I made a thread in the Slavic Forum asking to confirm the language of that Slavic website.

Boruma, can you tell us more about the context where you found it? Maybe that clarifies something. See, there are plenty of dialects and minor languages that sometimes also use corrupt forms of other languages, but one cannot help wondering how one finds them in New England??

It's Romanian and A VERY STRANGE TEXT INDEED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Where did you get it from??

robbie

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I found it when I made a search for cuneta duneta in google, I don't know what's it about though. Many words look like they're similar to spanish: personae, suficienti, serviciu, nocturno, pagini, matinale, salutare, gradu, gestionara, si erau unele, piesa de colectzie, terminat, etc.

I found it when I made a search for cuneta duneta in google, I don't know what's it about though. Many words look like they're similar to spanish: personae, suficienti, serviciu, nocturno, pagini, matinale, salutare, gradu, gestionara, si erau unele, piesa de colectzie, terminat, etc.

As I said before, this is a text written by K-gula who is a Romanian hiphopper, it's slang and it talks about making a video for a song.
"Ma cheama foarte devreme la studio " means " He asks me to come to the studio very early" ("devreme" ="early", "foarte" = "very").
And yes, of course they look similar to Spanish words, since Romanian is a Romance language, just as Spanish is.